Chapter 920: Landing Battle, Juehua's Fleet Comes to Help
After receiving the order, part of the army was set aside to guard the prisoners, and Li Yi immediately led his troops to Shanhaiguan and went to the Chinese army to meet Chen Yue, the king of Qi.
Li Yi arrived with the troops, and a stone fell to the ground in Chen Yue's heart, and with Li Yi's department, the troops in his hands were finally sufficient.
Li Yi told Chen Yue about the situation of entering Beijing, and heard that the city of Beijing was almost destroyed by the war, Chen Yue's heart was very heavy, after all, the Chen family has lived in Beijing for generations and has a deep affection for Beijing.
When he heard Li Yi's handling of the arrest of the Manchu people, Chen Yue was very appreciative.
"Lord Wang, some brothers said that the Mantars entered the customs all over the time, slaughtered the city at every turn, and killed countless Ming people. Now that the Manchu Tartars are defeated, we should return an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, and these Manchu captives should not be kept, but should all be killed to avenge the people of our Ming Dynasty. Although the last general forcibly suppressed his subordinates, the soldiers below had great opinions. At the end, Li Yi said worriedly.
Chen Yue nodded: "It's normal for brothers to have opinions. The brothers who enlisted in the south can say that the Mantars were blocked by us in the north of the Yangtze River, and they are not very poisonous to the south. However, for the soldiers of Shandong, the Manchu Tatars entered the customs several times and robbed, poisoning most of Shandong, dozens of cities were destroyed, hundreds of thousands of Shandong people were plundered to slavery outside the customs, and countless people fell on the way to Liaodong. The people of the north and the Manchu Tartars have a deep hatred like the sea, and it is very normal to have this kind of revenge.
However, we are an army, and we cannot allow private killings to vent our anger, and if this kind of thing is let go, what is the difference between us and the Manchurian Tartar soldiers? “
Li Yi said: "But what about these 100,000 Tartar people? We can't keep them for nothing, can we? ”
Chen Yue said: "Of course not! For more than 20 years, the Mantars have harmed our Ming Dynasty so much, it's time for them to repay the debt. Although it was the Mantar Eight Banners who caused the massacre, not these family members, since these family members enjoyed the benefits of looting, they had to pay for their enjoyment!
I will send the Zhenfu Division and Jinyiwei to specifically screen and deal with these Manchu Tartar families. All the men were captured as slaves in front of the army and used to fill the trenches during the siege. All the women were sold into slavery and spent the rest of their lives atoning for their sins. The north has been through war, and after the war, there are places where these prisoners are needed. “
After a brief conversation about the captives, the next step was the ongoing war.
Li Yi already knew that Jin Xin led the troops to climb over the side wall alone to the outside of Shanhaiguan, and out of worry, he took the initiative to ask Chen Yue for his life and wanted to lead his troops out of the customs to aid Jin Xin.
Chen Yue shook his head: "There is Jin Xin outside the gate, and it is enough to cooperate with Ning Yuan's Wu Ping to chase down the Mantars." Your troops will divide 10,000 men and bypass Shanhaiguan by boat to meet Jin Xin, and you will stay in the pass and command the attack on Shanhaiguan. “
"Yes, lord." I don't quite understand why Chen Yue didn't let him out of the customs to help Jin Xin, but Li Yi still accepted the order.
Of course, there was a reason why Chen Yue didn't let Li Yi out of the customs, because he had to consider Jin Xin's feelings. As the two generals under Chen Yue, Li Yi's contributions have surpassed Jin Xin's by a lot. In order to catch up with Li Yi, Jin Xin kept asking for orders to fight, and Chen Yue had to estimate his feelings. For balance reasons, Chen Yue also had to support Jin Xin more.
Li Yi immediately divided 10,000 people and was led by Yang Xiaolei to the beach. The ships collected from Tianjin have arrived, and although they are all smaller boats or even fishing boats, not sea vessels, but there is no problem in driving offshore.
At the mouth of the Shihe River, ships sailed into the Shihe River against the current, loaded with soldiers, and then sailed into the Bohai Sea. After gathering more than 100 ships, they sailed out into the sea.
The side wall of Shanhaiguan leads directly into the sea, so it is naturally impossible to walk around it from the coast, but it is very easy to take a boat. Shanhaiguan is close to the sea less than half a mile stands a castle, is the south wing of the city, there are artillery on the castle, in order to avoid the long-range attack of the Qing army in the side wall and the castle, the Ming army fleet went deep into the sea for two miles, and then turned back to the coast, and docked at the side wall three miles away from the side wall outside Shanhaiguan.
Seeing that the Ming army actually went around the pass by boat, Dai Shan was shocked and sent 1,008 flags out of the pass, and lined up on the beach to try to prevent the Ming army from going ashore.
The Eight Banners stretched out their bows and arrows, and the feathered arrows fell like locusts into the sea, landed on the boat, and landed in the sea.
The shields on the ships of the Ming army were erected to block the rain of arrows of the Qing army, and the fire guns of the Ming army fought back with color.
The two sides exchanged arrows and fought fiercely. However, under the resistance of the Qing army, it was very difficult for the Ming army to land.
"Damn, bullying Lao Tzu is a small boat, if there is a sea boat, how can you let the dog be so arrogant!" repeatedly rushed to the beach and landed, but could not go ashore as he wished, but caused his subordinates to be shot and killed a lot, Yang Xiaolei scolded hatefully.
"Lieutenant General, look!" At this moment, suddenly one of his subordinates pointed to the north in surprise. Yang Xiaolei turned his head to look and saw several large ships sailing towards the wind and waves.
Although they were miles away, the sheer size of the ships could still be seen, and from the towering masts on the ships, it was clear that these were real three-masted ships.
"General Wu Ping has sent a sea ship to help!" Yang Xiaolei exclaimed in surprise. Coming from the north, there is such a huge three-masted sailing ship, which fleet is not moored in Juehua Island, Wu Ping's fleet?
The ships were getting closer and closer, four in all, two three-masted ships, two two-masted ships, and four sailing ships were full sails to ride the wind and waves, and a strong sense of oppression came to the face. Compared with the small boat that Yang Xiaolei's Ming army was riding, it was a real behemoth.
For many ordinary soldiers of the Ming Army, they have seen a lot of river boats running on inland rivers, but it is the first time to see such a huge sea boat, and the shock in my heart is very strong when I look at this kind of tall sea ship that is as tall as a building.
The sea boat came, just approaching made the small boat on which the Ming army was riding sway, if it really hit, where could such a boat under his feet be touched lightly!
Fortunately, this is his own fleet, and he is here to help, which makes the Ming army on the ship extremely reassured. With such a powerful ship, it is naturally easy to deal with the Mantars on the shore.
Sure enough, when there were still three miles to the coast, several sea ships had already opened fire, and the shells fell into the Qing army across the sea for several miles, and the people who smashed them turned on their backs.
"Order, all ships to get out of the way for sea vessels!" With Yang Xiaolei's order, the boats rowed to both sides. The four seagoing vessels approached the shore along the sea channel where the boats had abandoned, and at a distance of half a mile from the shore, they turned sideways and aimed their sides at the shore.
The sound of "boom boom" cannon rang out, but it was no longer a red-coated cannon, but the tiger squat cannon on the ship fired, countless projectiles crossed the sea and shot into the Qing army's array, and countless Qing soldiers were shot to the ground.
Taking advantage of the fact that the Qing army was suppressed by the ship's artillery, Yang Xiaolei led the Ming army to land on the beach in a small boat.